GitHub Outage August 2026 Explained: The Autoscaling Failure and Retry Storm Behind 7 Hours of Downtime
GitHub’s August 17, 2026 outage lasted 7 hours and 47 minutes and affected APIs, Pull Requests, Actions, Copilot and other services. A new root-cause analysis reveals how an autoscaling failure, load-balancer saturation and cascading retry behavior turned an infrastructure problem into a major developer outage.